Great, you can put it here:

http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/CC/Recording+of+Live+Sh ows+%28in+the+studio%29


Paul Baranowski
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Daniel James <
airtime-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Listening to the 'Radio Magic' seminar that Adam organised at
> Transmediale yesterday, two themes stood out...
>
> 1. Recording live shows and tagging them with rich metadata is vital for
> re-use of the material.
>
> 2. No-one wants to do the archiving work required, they would rather
> make more live shows (which is much more exciting).
>
> Seeing that we need solutions for proof of broadcast, automatic
> recording and more, I had an idea which might cover all of these bases.
> It goes something like this:
>
> 1. Run a server with darklog to capture the proof of broadcast from the
> live studio:
>
> http://www.broadcastsoftware.org/logging.htm
>
> No point re-inventing the wheel there, we can contribute to darklog
> development too. We don't need to capture playlisted shows, since they
> are already in the Airtime database.
>
> 2. Put the live shows into the Airtime schedule in advance of broadcast,
> with metadata. This will also help avoid clashes in the schedule between
> live and pre-recorded or playlisted shows.
>
> 3. After each show has ended, have Airtime pull the recording from the
> Darklog server using curl or wget, and import it into the Airtime
> database, using an improved airtime-import script. Tag the import with
> the show metadata from the schedule, using the timestamp on the audio
> file to match the two up.
>
> 4. Have Airtime export the schedule to a listener website (e.g. to a
> Newscoop plugin) including links to the show recordings, which could be
> cached on the public-facing server. This enables a 'listen again'
> service for the last seven days of live content, or as far back as
> server storage allows.
>
> To implement this idea, we would need to improve the airtime-import
> script so that custom Airtime ID3 tags could be specified on the command
> line. Something like:
>
> airtime-import --s "Dave's Elvis Show" --g "Rock 'n Roll" --p "Dave
> Smith and Colin Jones" http://my.darklogserver.org/201102031026.ogg
>
> where:
>
> --s is show name
> --g is genre
> --p is presenter names
>
> and so on. This way, the metadata will be redundantly stored in both the
> Airtime database and in the tags of the individual recordings (so that
> if anything went wrong with the database, the recording files could be
> re-imported into a fresh database without losing vital metadata).
>
> The Airtime server can be remote from the Darklog server in the live
> studio, and so one machine can go down without affecting the other.
>
> If you like the sound of this idea, please let me know and I'll put it
> in the wiki.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
>